Greg Cote
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Since we don't know how to diagnose concussions in the NFL with the world's best doctors, since brain chemistry is a complicated and difficult thing that
The science is evolving on.
I will ask you guys again, what do you think it looks like?
Because if this doesn't reach you when it's one of the biggest personalities in the history of South Florida sports, a Hall of Famer, if it doesn't make you feel some kind of way, I don't think we're actively thinking about very much.
What does it look like?
What are the consequences of battering your face against somebody in a way that can get 20 sacks up the middle of the field in a season?
Right.
What does that do to your long term health?
Because if he's already telling you he has all of the symptoms and this is the behavior, where are you inclined to think when they put the hearing in a mental health facility?
Are you are you inclined to think that he's mentally unwell or are you inclined to think that the police are doing something to smear him?
I'm inclined to think that he has shown indications of a mental health issue, and I'm not surprised that the cops have put him in that division.
I think that's what CTE looks like, is that kind of behavior.
The thing that scared me about that is that in one second,
He's being very angry and with good reason.
The reporter basically called him a jerk or called his behavior jerk behavior.
He didn't bring up that word first, the reporter did.
If somebody called me a jerk in that context, I'm probably pretty angry too.
But it came off of him saying, I've never been a nice guy, which isn't something you hear very often from an athlete.
I know, but the thing is, in the context of his career, in the context of what made him famous,
and successful not being a very nice guy work to his benefit he was the guy you were afraid of if you were the center of the opposing team in real life now in retirement there's a whole different connotation to not being a nice guy it when you're fighting with cops that's just plain dumb i'm not saying